ProMine Mineral Databases: New Tools to Assess Primary and Secondary Mineral Resources in Europe

Cassard, Daniel; Bertrand, Guillaume; Billa, Mario; Serrano, Jean-Jacques; Tourlière, Bruno; Angel, Jean-Michel; Gaál, Gabor

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17428-0_2

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“…The data we used are (i) gravity data from the “Banque Gravimétrique de la France” (Martelet et al ., ), including the Bouguer anomaly and its vertical gradient continued upward to 2.5 km (with a mesh grid of 1 × 1 km) covering a 62101 km² area, (ii) an airborne magnetic anomaly reduced to the pole with a mesh grid of 1 × 1 km (sub‐sampled from a high‐resolution survey; Bonijoly et al ., ; Truffert et al ., ) covering a 54 461 km² area and (iii) mining databases (ProMine Mineral Deposit Database, Cassard et al ., , complemented by BRGM unpublished data on other minor occurrences).…”

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Antimony deposits in the Variscan Armorican belt, a link with mafic intrusives?

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International audienceThe Variscan Armorican belt was the World leading producerof antimony at the beginning of the twentieth century. However,geological controls on the deposits remain unconstrained.Here, we illustrate the field setting ofmineralisations and perform a statistical analysis using GeographicalInformation System software, geophysical and geologicaldata. The analysis shows that Sb deposits are spatiallycorrelated with high-density and magnetic zones. This mayreflect the presence of mafic/ultramafic bodies at depth – asuggestion that is further supported by numerous occurrencesof doleritic dykes throughout the region. Future antimonyprospecting should focus on the high-density and high-magneticzones which comprise about 18% of the Armorican massif.Links between Sb deposits and mafic intrusions arerecognised elsewhere in the West European Variscan belt,emphasising that these may be key for antimony prospectingin deformation belts

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Antimony deposits in the Variscan Armorican belt, a link with mafic intrusives?

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“…Three databases were used for the cross-analyses: ProMine Anthropogenic Concentrations (AC) databases (Cassard, 2012;Cassard et al, 2012), BDSTM (French Database of Sites and Mining Titles) and Dechminue.…”

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Reprocessing of mining waste: combining environmental management and metal recovery?

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Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Mine Closure

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Raw materials are essential for the sustainable functioning of modern societies. Access to and affordability of mineral raw materials are crucial for the sound functioning of the European Union's economy. The increasing demand for raw materials raises growing concerns regarding mineral resources and especially metals availability. Furthermore, many metals, metalloids or rare earth elements that had no application in the past are now used for the manufacture of high added-value products, especially in the domain of new and green technologies. Many of them are by-products of base metals production, and their reserves are very limited. Therefore a list of strategic and critical materials was established by the European Commission in 2010. Following the rich mining history of France, there are currently some 300 mineral deposits mined or significantly explored. These are the source of large quantities of 'tailings' (gangue, processing waste resulting from concentration or hydrometallurgical treatment, slag, heap). The European Directive 2006/21/EC of 15 March 2006 on the management of waste from extractive industries oversees the permit conditions, storage, monitoring and control of mining waste to ensure the protection of human health and the environment. The member states have to carry out and periodically update an inventory of closed waste facilities that cause or have the potential to cause a serious threat to human health or the environment. Moreover, the directive encourages the recovery of extractive waste by means of recycling, reuse or reclamation. Following this, an inventory was finalised in France in 2012 in which 2,100 metallic and 1,300 coal tailings were identified and prioritised according to their potential impacts on groundwaters, surface waters, soils and human health. Among these, 53 sites with major environmental issues were listed. These sites are and will be the subject of specific actions (environmental and sanitary studies, works of rehabilitation) in order to reduce their long-term impact on both human health and environment. While metallic elements present in the tailings are by nature nondegradable, these actions require long-term approaches. The paper focuses on one of these sites, former Pb-Ag mines, where operations have led to the production of 200,000 m 3 of mining waste. A French Geological Survey (BRGM) rehabilitation programme, based on environmental studies, was designed to stop additional tailings erosion towards the river and the surrounding areas and to avoid any contacts between the contaminated materials and the population. Metals recovery could be envisaged to mitigate the remediation cost. https://papers.acg.uwa.edu.au/p/1352_48_Bellenfant/ Reprocessing of mining waste: combining environmental management and metal recovery?

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“…We implemented kernel density (KD) methods 73 using Kernel Density tool in ArcGIS, and incorporated categorical deposit amounts as weights following ref. 74 . Kernels were centered on each deposit location and generated based on deposit size weights and on radii distances specific to metallic or non-metallic minerals.…”

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Mapping global development potential for renewable energy, fossil fuels, mining and agriculture sectors

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Mapping suitable land for development is essential to land use planning efforts that aim to model, anticipate, and manage trade-offs between economic development and the environment. Previous land suitability assessments have generally focused on a few development sectors or lack consistent methodologies, thereby limiting our ability to plan for cumulative development pressures across geographic regions. Here, we generated 1-km spatially-explicit global land suitability maps, referred to as “development potential indices” (DPIs), for 13 sectors related to renewable energy (concentrated solar power, photovoltaic solar, wind, hydropower), fossil fuels (coal, conventional and unconventional oil and gas), mining (metallic, non-metallic), and agriculture (crop, biofuels expansion). To do so, we applied spatial multi-criteria decision analysis techniques that accounted for both resource potential and development feasibility. For each DPI, we examined both uncertainty and sensitivity, and spatially validated the map using locations of planned development. We illustrate how these DPIs can be used to elucidate potential individual sector expansion and cumulative development patterns.

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ProMine Mineral Databases: New Tools to Assess Primary and Secondary Mineral Resources in Europe

Cited by 29 publications

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Antimony deposits in the Variscan Armorican belt, a link with mafic intrusives?

Antimony deposits in the Variscan Armorican belt, a link with mafic intrusives?

Reprocessing of mining waste: combining environmental management and metal recovery?

Mapping global development potential for renewable energy, fossil fuels, mining and agriculture sectors

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